Output details
20 - Law
Keele University
The Concept of Unity in Public International Law
The book was shortlisted for the 2012 Birks Book Prize of the Society of Legal Scholars.
This book constitutes the first ever comprehensive examination of the concept of unity in public international law. It complicates and pluralises a question which has remained notoriously under-theorised in the international law literature by bringing together works from the disciplines of jurisprudence, philosophy, sociology and discourse analysis. As well as situating the concern for unity in the broad history of metaphysics – from the pre-Socratics to French existentialists – the book introduces and elaborates five original perspectives on unity in international law